Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-03-26

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ing through the room would some.
times hear people sigh and cry,
"A-ah! not long for this worldw I
:. resolved in these times that never
in any conversation, would say any,
Thing depressing, and by the help
of God [ have kept the resolution.
These people Of whom I speak
reap and bindlin the great harvest
field of Encouragement. S)ne
days You greet them with h'lar.
ious "Good morning." and they
come buzzing at you with some de-
pressing information. The Lord
sent the hornet. 1t is astonishing
how some people prefer TO write
and to say disagreeable things
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answer. Att t6e::sverY titneswhenf
you would suppose all decent men
would have applauded the herois q
of thu man, there were thosa 70
hiss. The Lord sent the hornet
And when afterward that man sat
down on the western coast of Afrl.
ca, sick and worn perhaps in the
grandest acllievemsnt OF the age
in the way geographical discovery
there were small critics all over the
world to buzz and buzz, and carlo
ATTIRE aud deride him; and when a,
few weeks after thar he got the
London papers, as he opened them,
out flew the hornet. When l see
that there are so many people in
the world who like to say disagree.
able things, and write disagreeable
things, come almost i'll my weak
er moments to believe what m an
said to me in Philadelphia one
Monday morning. L went to get
the horse thatwas ut the livery, and
the hostler, a plain man, said to
me, "Mr. Talmage, | saw that You
preached to the young men yester-
day. said, Eyes" He said,
Ono use. no usn: mans failura.u
The small insect annoyances of
life sometimes come in the shape
of local physical trouble, which
does not amount to apositive pros
tration, but which bothers you
when you want to feel the BEST
Perhaps it is a sick headache which
has been the plague otyour life,
aud you appoint some occasion OF
mirth., or sociality, or usefulness,
and when the clock strikes the hour
you cannot make your appearance.
Perhaps the trouble is between thee
ear and the forehead, in the shape
of a neuralgia .twinge:.:..-Moboly
can ee-itor svmpathise withgyou;
butjust at the time when you want
your intellect clearest, and your
disposition brihtest,you feel d slarp
keen, disconcerting thrust. The
Lord sent the hornet.
Perhaps these small insect an.
noyances will come in the shape of
a domestic irritation. The parlor
and the kitchen do not always
harmonise. To get good service
and to keep 1t is one OF the great
questions of the country. Some
times it may be the arrogancy and
inconslderateness OF employers;
but whatever be the fact, we all
admit there are these insect an.
noyance& winging their way out
from the culinary department. If
the grace of God be not in the heart
of the housekeeper she cannot
maintain her equilibrium. The
men come home atnight and hear
the story OF these annoyances and
say 90! these home troubles are
very little things" They are small,
as wasps, but they sting. Mar
tla's nerves were all unstrung
when she rushed in asking Christ
to reprove Mary. and there are
tens OF thousands of women who
are dying, stung to death by these
pestiterous domestic annoyances.
The Lold sent the hornet.
These small insect disturbances
may also come in the shape Of
business irritations. There are
men here who went through 1857
and September "a, 1869, without
losing their balance, WHO are every
day endorsed by little annoyances
"a clerks ill manners, or blot of
ink Oh a bill OF lading, or the ex-
travagance Of a partner who over
draws his accounts, or the UNDER
selling by a. business rival, or the.
whispering Of business condolences
in the street, or the making ofsome
bad debt which-was against your
judgment, just.tos please somebody
else. 1t is notthe panics that kill
the merchants. Panics comes only
once in ten or twenty years. Itis
the constant din of these every day
annoyances which is sending so
many of our best merchants into
nervous dyspepsia and paralysis
and the grave. When our nation
al commerce fell fat on the face,
these men stood up and felt almost
defiant; but their life is giving way
now under the swarm of these pes
tiferOuS annOyaDces, The Lord